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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-07
SHOOTING MATCH.
Honolulu Rifles Team by One
Point.

1t is probable that a more exciting
rifle shooting match never took place in
this city than the one on Saturday at the
King street range, between teams repre-
senting the Honolulu Rife Association
and the Honolulu Rifles. The distance
was 200 and 400 yards, each man firing
ten rounds at both distances. The
weather was fine and the wind COM
paratively steady for shooting. Quite
large number of persons were out to
witness the progress of the match. The
shooting was not up to the average, prob
ably owing to the fact that the weather
has been so stormy of late that practice
was next to impossible. Mr.. Chas. b.
Wilson made the highest score in the
match, viz: SO points. He was closely
followed by w. Unger, with 81 points.
That unusually good shot, DR.. John
Brodie, made a miss, while DR.. Emer-
son missed the target twice. 1t was not
the doctors day out. The match was
exceedingly exciting, as when only two
more shots had to be fired the score was
equal, each team having made 455
points. Unger, for the Rifles, took aim
and made 4, bringing his teams score
to 49, The excitement was intense as
Wilson, of the Association team, took up
his rifle for the final shot He made a
bull's-eye, 3, and won the game for his
side by one point. A return match will
be shot on the 18th. The following is
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-07
IaRanese AcrObats.

There were two performances on Sat
lrdav last at the Hawaiian Opera
House by the Japanese troupe OF aero
bats. The matinee was largely attended
bv children, who were greatly delighted
by what they witnessed, and later on IN
the day very few households in the city
were without attempted repetitions OF
the tumbling tricks of the juvenile Jap
anese performers. Indeed many mothers
have passed quite an anxious time lest
the necks, legs or arms Of their promls-
ing offspring should be broken in the
persevering attempts to reproduce the
startling physical combinations OF the
india-rubber jointed boys from Japan.
In the evening large and appreciative
audience greeted the Japanese perform
ers, and the entire programme was gone
through without a hitch, and with the
utmost satisfaction to all. 1t is not nee
essary to particularize any special feat
of dexterity where all are deserving o.
praise. One seldom witnesses so level 9
performance of the kind with any com
bination. 1t will be seen by our adver-
Using columns that this talented com
pany give another series of performances
this week.
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KAHULUI, Maui, March 4th.o

The bark VIII w. Case sailed for San
Francisco March LIST with the following
cargo: 9,947 bags II. G. & S. Co.
sugar, 1,127 bags Waikapu Sugar Com
pany's sugar, 100 bags Waihee Sugar
Company's sugar, 523 green hides, A. F.
H. Total, 1865, 465 pounds. Also, the
following passengers: Mr.. Torrents, wife
and four children.
The schooner Rosario is fully due, and
the bark F. S. Thompson is due in ten
days, both from San Francisco. No yes
sells in port now.
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TIE Daily
TERMS OF sUESCRIPTION.

'1''' VI - 's3'N III
fer w
six moRths o.
Per month oOc
BSubscriptiOns Payable Always In
Advance.
Communications from all parts Of the Kingdom
will always be very acceptable.
Persons residing in any part of the United states
remit the amount Of subscription due by Post
Office money order
Matter intended for publication in the editorial
columns should be addressed to
- EDITOR PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER
Business communications and advertisement
should be addressed simply
"P. c. ADvERTIsER,
And not To individuals
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0INTS ABOUT The HARBOR.

frequency with which Ocean-gOing
5te. srs visit Honolulu should suggest
.. ... one the necessity for Harbor i'm
l- lent. Every available foot of the
.5 -ea should be utilized for the &C
c. dation of shipping under an intel
management OF the HarbOr. But
han nothing is being done, if one
~ permitted such an expression.
IT, II want OF attention the Harbor is
Flowed to fill up, and if this pro
ontinues many months longer
u. Gather similar to that which has
ed since November last, the com
value of the port will have de-
ted at least 20 per cent. We feel
lined to put the matter in this
way because unless the mercau
crest can be stimulated to action
no possible hope Of accomplish
thing.
Chamber of Commerce has been
-e, tive from time to time, and its
.--~, has not always been wisely di-
-'.e but just at this juncture We
iuA could do nothing better than TO
nd consider matters relating to the
r. This is not a question of party
80 J. It concerns every interest, di-
indirect, in the Kingdom. And the
Der of Commerce is the organiza-
tic which the public naturally look
foI unset and guidance in things of this
XII 1. Moreover, formal request FROM
that body would command attention
when passing suggestion would not. 1t
Is incumbent upon the mercantile and
shipping interests of the Kingdom to
make their power and influence felt for
their own protection and the good OF the
Commonwealth. Practical ideas must
prevail or great and permanent evil
may be entailed on the community at
large.
The sum of $4,000 was appropriated
by the Legislature last session for dredg
ing the Harbor out of ordinary revenue
and further sum was appropriated fol
wharvss. 1t would probably be mex
pedient now to expend all the vote OF
dredging, and indeed we hardly think il
could be done with advantage, as there
are less than thirteen months of the bi-
ennial period to run; but the dredget
should be kept running to it's full ca
pacity. With regard to wharf accom-
mediation, an increase in that direction
is very much needed, and this will b.
more apparent should the China steam
ers either of the Pacific Mail or the pro
ieeted Canadian line touch here regular
ly. As it is at present the wharf accom-
mediation is too limited, and our forme
suggestion that a wharf and dock shout
be constructed for coasting schooner
close by the old Mail wharf ought to b.
carried out. Indeed, this was one of tn
works intended to be done, as was ex
pressly stated by the former Minister 0
the Interior when advocating the appro
priation for wharves at the late session
of the Legislature. This would be
great advantage to the shipping of tin
mort. 1t would enable the coastin,
crafts to secure regular berths of easy &C
cess. and take them out of the way O
the steam and larger class OF vessels ire
ouenting the port, leaving an open an
unimpeded steerage way in the inne
Harbor. We submit these points to tn
attention of business men generally an
the Chamber of Commerce in particu
lar. in the hope that something practica
NAV result therefrom.
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THE d" TRIUMPH OF JOSS"

The anglican Church Chronicle" has
the following comments upon an edi-
torial in the ADVERTISER on the 'tTri-
umph OF Joss"
The P. C. ADVERTISER, in a leading arti-
Gle. recently depIored the Triumph OF
Joss OF course we join most heartily
in condemning anything and everything
who works against the good of mankind
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Books written mp. Accounts and Rents
Collected.

Books written mp. Accounts and Rents
Collected
Employment and Shipping Agency Labor
Contract Blanks and Revenue Stamps always on
hand. Copying and translating in all Languages
used in this Kingdom. Orders from the other
Islands will receive prompt attention.
Valuable Properties for SaIe.-Two acres
of land, splendidly situated in Makiki for
Honesteads.
One acre in Makiki, on Beretania street fine
building site
One and fve-eighth acres with 4-room Cottage,
on Llllha street. rare chance.
For LeaSe.-Forty acres of land 219 miles
from Mos sman's cOrner-15 acres of which is
suitable for either rice or taro and has been
under cultivation for the last five years All
buildings necessary for first-class little ranch
now on the premises.
Wanted.-A Situation-By a coin petent practf-
cal Engineer, who has had many years expe-
f1ence, anu can give the best of references
Employment on plantation preferred.
-HOstIer.-A competent, handy man
ABOUT horses can find employment for the next
SIX weeks. Japanese preferred.
Full particulars given upon application at
No. 80 MERCHANT ST, HONOLULU.
Lately occupied by Messrs Smith l. Thurston.
5O2 feb23tf
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RoyaI Hama1ian Hotel

The following are the late arrivals at
the Hawaiian Hotel:
Joseph Whiteside, New Bedford, Mass. !;
F. B. Auerbach, Heeia; Fred Charles,
Wailuku; o. Scholz, Kauai H. Turton,
Jr., L&haina j. A. Beckwith, Hilo; F.
S. Lea, Eng and ri Gordon,
Scotland; L r Keyworth, Hawaii;
Captain W. Matson, San Francisco.
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wharf Washed Away.

Captain Davis, of the Likelike, reports
that the wharf at Hama, Maui, was
washed away Friday night. Some of
the timbers are now on the beach
near by.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-30
Fashions for Gentlemen.

Despite all the ridicule cast upon every
thing that is " English, you know" Lon
don continues to set the fashion in mems
clothes, and the garments of the masculine
gender are more English this season than
ever. The one characteristic of mems
spring styles that may be called new is
looseness. Every garment is made as loose
as 1t can be worn while yet preserving the
contour OF the figure, and the looser or
more baggy the garment the more it
approaches high English style.
Trousers are cut extremely wide and full
in almost straight lines from thighs and
hips. They are mostly made without any
spring at the bottom. Cassimeres are as
usual the favorite cloth. in different shades
OF gray and brown and mixture of the
same colors. Stripes retain their popu-
larity, some of the new ones being very
wide, but checks are also used, and the
very latest patterns are plaids.
Among the ultra-fashionables plaided
trousers and even entire suits of plaid will
be the rage, and some of the patterns are
very striking, and what some people call
"giddy."
The cutaway coat of three or four but
tons retains its popularity, and for all but
full-dress occasions continues TO be the
proper thing. 1t was thought that frock
COdtS NOuio NC iSflNcu. Uul very lew OF
them are being made, and the Prince AL
bert as it is called, has apparently had its
dav
The new frock coats being made are
much longer, reaching in some cases fully
to the knees. Black remains the most uni
versal favorite, and rough-surface rather
than smooth-surface cloths are in the great
est demand. Both coats and vests are cut
much lower in the neck, 50 as to show
more OF the crayat, and the aim of the best
tailcrs is to make the collar look as bold as
possible.
In London this season coats are again
being built out in the shoulders so as to
look square and give a military effect.
This idea does not seem to take here, and
remains to be seen whether it will be
adopted TO any great extent.
In business suits all of the same material
breasted sack-coats are again in
fashion, though single-breasted coats are
Still the fsvorite. They are not cut away
or rounded much in front. Some very
beautiful materials are shown this season
TO make up into full sack-suits, especially
the Scotch grays, in broken stripes and
plaids Entire suits in stripes will be
much worn
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of the people of Piumas as resist the law
must be taught that their action is as GER
tain to bring down punishment upon them,
as the rising and setting of the sun is to
recur. The Government of the United
States Is the representative of the sover-
eighty of the people of the nation, and
they have never submitted for any great
length of time to rebellion against il,
much less will they tolerate lawlessness in
a distant county in California No matter
what the cause or what the equities, the
laws of the land and the DEGREES of the
Courts always will have, as they always
have had, the support of the people, be-
cause they themselves make them. Who
ever sets himself up to defy the Courts in
this country invites ruin; the misguided
people of Plumas who have been guilty of
the outrages reported yesterday and to-day,
have cut themselves loose from whatever
of sympathy they may have had. The
judgment of the impartial citizenship of
the day condemns them. Tolerance will
no more be virtue in dealing with them j;
they have forfeited their claims to gener-
Gus consideration, and it remains only for
the power of the United States to be in
voked, to the fullness of its strength if
need be, to enforce the DEGREES of the
Courts. The one thing for these misled
people to do is to retrace their steps as
speedily as possible, conform to the orders
of the law tribunals of the land, and
abandon utterly the folly of resistance to
constituted authority.
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Land Office AIatters

The following business was transacted
in the United States Land Office in this
city yesterday;
Agricultural application - Norman V.
Hatch, Volcano, Amador county; D. S.
No 9540 Allowed and filed.
Final proof Extraordinarily Richard Rey-
nolds, Folsom, Sacramento county; III. A.
No 1881. Dismissed on motion of appli-
cant.
Mineral = Horace d. Ranlett, San An
dreas, Calaveras county; Satellite Copper
NJ. and Mill-site, NJ. A. 1897. Suspended
for further proof.
Appeals = Parkinson Reed mountain
ranch Calaveras county; homestead APP
plicant, No. 4425-from decision of Regis
ter rejecting final proof. Transmitted to
General Land Office. Frances L. Hillary
mountain ranch, Calaveras county H. a
No 4i26-from decision of Register reject
ing final proof. Transmitted to General
Land Office
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Collecting Fishing Iicense

The Fish Commissioners have paid into
the State Treasury, to the credit of the Fish
Commission Fund, $50, for license collected
under the new law. The law provides
that every person engaged in the vocation
of fishing in the public waters of the State
who shall use a boat or net for the purpose
of fishing, must obtain a license from the
Fish Commission for the term of one year,
commencing with the first day Of April
each year. The owner or user of each fish
ing boat worked by less than three men
shall pay license fee of 81 So, and boats
worked by three or more men shall paw
81 so for each man so engaged This
license is collected by deputy appointed
by the Fish Commissioners. He meets
with much opposition from the Greeks and
Chinese fishermen. The boats have to be
marked on beth sides with large tin tag
bearing the number of their receipts, and
all boats found in the navigable waters
within the State must be seized or the Ii
cense collected,
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COLONEL WARNINGS SEWERAGE sYs-
TEN,

Los Angeles has invited Colonel Warning
to examine that city, with view to advis
ing improvementNof its drainage system.
The distinguished sanitary engineer has
completed his plans for San Diego, and
very soon that city will enjoy superior
sewerage system The method Colonel
Waring favors, and which is that San
Diego has adopted, and which Memphis
put in in 1880, embraces, according to the
Los Angeles Herald, large main drains fed
by six-ineh drains from side streets and
four-inch drains from the houses, with ex-
tensions TO and above the house-tops and
left open-ended for ventilation. No rain
water is admitted to the sewers-and con-
sequently there are no street openings for
escape OF gases-which are so small that
very little water serves to flush them
thoroughly-in some cases the flow
from two or three large houses is sufficient
to flush an entire system. But at the head
of each sewer is placed small automatic
fush-tank, and this is filled with water.
say twice day. When filled, it discharges
by its own weight in from forty to fifty
seconds, and the entire pipe is swept clear
of all distractions by the weight of the
water.
1t would be very interesting to know
what Colonel Waring would propose for
the disposition of the sewage in Sacra-
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CODY'S ACHIEVEMENT.

The Hon. William f. Cody, better
known in America as Buffalo BILL and a
representative Of the American border
and wild West, has accomplished that
which must make the average American
Snowman green with envy. Bill has cap
tured one of the foremost statesmen of the
age. If he has not literally chained him
to the chariot wheel of mis- "Wild West
show, he has at least done so metaphor
ically. Hereafter the Hon. William
Ewart Gladstone is for all advertising pur-
poses the. Hon. Cody may contemplate, as
much part and parcel of "BiIPs' show
as if he were mounted upon one OF the
wild West" broncos and made to do the
bucking act in the ring. Bill has gone to
England with parcel of American In
dians, some plains cowboys. herd of kick
ing mustangs, a buffalo or two, wigwam
equipage, fringed buckskin ad libitum, and
a fine supply Of self-cocking reviewers and
repeating rifles. He is the avant courier
of the American Exhibition in London,
and to turn an honest penny in time, has
opened up his show upon the exhibition
grounds some weeks in advance of the in
auguration of the exposition itself. Thither
came Mr.. Gladstone, in company with the
Marquis of Lorne and a group of dis
tinguished people, witnessed "BilPs" feats
of sharpshooting and horsemanship, the
evolutions of the long-haired cowboys
and the ungraceful antics of the red
SKINS 1t is a little difficult for
Americans to understand the profound in
terest an exhibition of half-tamed aborig-
ines of this continent and the specimens
OF American frontier civilization awakens
in England. Such an exhibition in the
heart of the old country certainly is
deemed marvellous thing-a revelation, a
cause for wonderment beyond the compre-
hension of Americans, to whom such shows
are common and devoid of much romantic
interest. Bill has given his Wild West"
show an interest attaching to no other;
after the performance he invited his dis
tinguished visitors to lunch with him, and
they accepted. 1t is not related whether
the chief viands were jerked buffalo meat,
bacon and beans and rum; but whatever
the spread, the lunch went to the right
spot, and warmed the grand old man to
uch degree that Bill had no difficulty in
getting him upon his feet post prandially,
and the result was one of the best social
efforts of Gladstone's later career 1t was
intermingled with some very sage and
happy remarks upon American history,
the relations of the two countries, and
throughout was vital with appeals to the
common human interests of English-speal-
ing people. 1t was all a very socially Sc
rious and interesting affair to Cody and
AIr. Gladstone; but it is impossible
on this side of the water to repress a
smile at the cleverness of Buffalo Bill, or
to refuse to congratulate him upon having
received an Endorsement for his show that
is worth more to him than all the dead
wall posters the typographical art can pro-
duce, and eclipses anything of the kind in
showmen's annals.
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mento, for instance, after being carried to
a given point by the sewers. That, in
deed, is distinct matter. Sanitary science
would suggest the disposal Of heavy mat
ter by fire. Heat is the one great
and chief destroyer of foul matter. The
disposal of liquid sewage is more difficult,
and especially in plains town where the
fall is not great. One decided advantage
of the Waring system is the increased fall
that can be secured by bringing the pipes
nearer to the surface, whereas great sewers
must Of necessity be sunk deeply. We
are not prejudiced for or against any sys-
tenn; there is none tried elsewhere that
will not need modification for any other
city to which it is sought to apply it.
Where gravitation cannot be had, force
must be applied to eject sewage; so, too,
where gravitation can be had to carry
the sewage to common point of discharge,
there is frequently inability to dispose of
the sewage thereafter, except at heavy
cost. The Pullman City system, with its
sewage farm, is successful, but with some
soils and climates this could not be salts
factorily applied. So that the thing for
cities having imperfect systems is to con-
suit with those who have made sanitary
science life study, and the disposal of
sewage matter of special research.
Colonel Waring, after examining Los
Angeles, is to come on to San Francisco
and advise with the authorities there, and
il is the understood will then consult with
the people OF Oakland. The hope has
been entertained that he will be asked to
visit Sacramento, also, and frankly tell us
what he thinks can be done here This
city, like all those of California, has put
of too long the necessity of settlement
upon proper sewerage system. Whether
constructed now or not, it ought to be
determined before the place grows any
larger what is to be the system of the
future, that new construction and i'm
provcments may conform to it.
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Time From. Mount Hamilton.

The time by which the railroad clocks at
San Francisco and Oakland wharf are reg
ulated is obtained daily from the Lick OBJ
seryatory, at Mount Hamilton, and every
two or three days it is telegraphed to Sac
ramento, where the chronometer is kept by
which railroad men in the Southern Pacific
employ, above and east of Sacramento,
regulate their watches and clocks daily, as
the operators here strike IL NJ. over the
wires. But the railroad company is pre-
pairing for an improvement in forwarding
ume Apparatus is being constructed by
which telegraph wire will be connected
with the pendulum of the clock at the Lick
Observatory. AT one minute to II the
wires will be opened, all other business
suspended, and at - the hour will be struck
in every railroad office from Ell Paso to
Ogden and throughout California.
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PARIS f.00O-FeoT TowrR.-According TO
lie Genie Girl work upon the foundation OF
the 1,0G0-foot Eiffel Tower in the Champ de
Mars, Paris, is being vigorously pushed.
Careful soundings on the site show as feet
to the surface of the clay stratum uuderly-
ing the Paris basin. This clay is dry and
compact and presents very good founda-
ton for the work, but the material lying
between it and the surface of the Champ
de Mars is for about half its upper depth
an alluvisl deposit and rubbish of no gen
eral geological characteristic, and the lower
half is sand and gravel. 1t is proposed to
sink at each of the four corners of the
tower masses of masonry about so feet
square and developing reaction, or resist
ance to lifting, of 5000 French tons, and to
load the soil with not more than 81 tons to
the square foot.
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IT is to be hoped that the confidence
detective Hume has, that the gang OF rob-
bers who committed the outrage at Papago
station on the Southern Pacific line, will be
apprehended, may prove to be prophetic.
But the robbery appears to have been very
carefully planned and very skillfully carried
out, and it is altogether probable that the
perpetrators of the "road work" are safe
over the border in Mexico, or mingling
with the people in sor,e large American
town by this time the safest of all hiding
places. by the way.